A new Facebook page monitoring thousands of fracking-related accidents and cleanups happening nearly every day over the last nine years challenges the Ohio gas and oil industry’s claims that it’s environmentally friendly.
Creation of the Daily Accident Report: Gas and Oil Facebook page was begun last month by Jenny Morgan of Columbus, a Save Ohio Parks steering committee member and longtime fracking waste brine activist, singer, poet and songwriter.
Ohio is a recognized climate villain because of its extensive extractive gas and oil production and carbon storage industry. The Utica-Marcellus shale region — which includes Ohio, western Pennsylvania and northwestern West Virginia — ranks second in the nation and fourth worldwide in greenhouse and methane gas emissions that warm the atmosphere and contribute to climate
change.
“Never mind that oil and gas contaminates water supplies, waterways and harms both wildlife and the health of our citizens across this nation. This is the industry that knew since the 1950s that gas and oil production would cause not just air and water pollution, but climate warming and climate change,” Morgan said.
For more information about Save Ohio Parks, the statewide, volunteer organization concerned about the harms fracking causes to our health, the environment and planet, visit their website at https://saveohioparks.org/.
